Excerpts from james.deas's message of Wed Jan 02 19:09:01 +0000
2008:> I am currently using the Fedora Open directory with a posix structure
> user information to authenticate several hundred Mac users.
>
> Currently this is being done using the netatalk package for userId, UID,
> GID, password, home directory.
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> What I am looking for is a way to move from netatalk to Samba without
> losing my LDAP capabilities.
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> I have seen several post related to doing this but none that give me
> specific information on Fedora 7 and its precompiled version of Samba.
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> Can someone confirm for me that this distribution is PAM enabled and
> that ldap using posix user info is compatible?
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>
the distribution is definitely pam-enabled, and samba too:
[eric@eric ~]$ ldd /usr/sbin/smbd
...
libldap-2.3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libldap-2.3.so.0 (0x00002aaaab2a4000)
...
libpam.so.0 => /lib64/libpam.so.0 (0x00002aaaacaf3000)
This may be interesting for you:
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba#Samba_Setup
cya,
eric
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> Thanks,
>
> JD
>
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